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Incumbent Larry Watkins, left, said kind words and congratulations to newly elected Councilwoman for Precinct One, Tammy Valente, right, as the results of Tuesday’s GOP runoff were posted at city hall.

• Valente defeats Watkins in precinct 1 race

  Tammy Valente won the  GOP runoff with incumbent Larry Watkins in precinct one in unofficial results.

  May 22, 2013 1 Photo

• Deputies arrest meth, cocaine suspects

  Deputies arrested a couple on various methamphetamine charges on Tuesday, May 14, following an investigation by Pearl River County Sheriff’s Dept. investigators and the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Deputies also made an arrest for cocaine that same day.

  May 22, 2013 3 Photos

• Thorman announces candidacy for mayor of Picayune

  (EDITOR’S NOTE: Mark Thorman has announced his candidacy and released this statement.)
  Hello, my name is Mark Thorman.
  I am humbly announcing my candidacy for Mayor of Picayune.

  May 22, 2013 1 Photo

• WAR MEMORIAL

  Work on the Veteran’s Memorial Walk in front of the Pearl River County Courthouse is underway. The brick walkway around the historical marker is coordinated by the Poplarville Rotary Club, Poplarville Area Chamber of Commerce and Pearl River Community College. The walkway is to honor local veterans.

  May 21, 2013 1 Photo

• Man wants pay for snakes seized in Miss. porn case

  A man serving 30 years after pleading guilty to enticing a teenager to pose for pornographic pictures with venomous snakes has filed a federal lawsuit seeking compensation for the loss of his reptiles.

  May 21, 2013

Sports

• Saints ready to practice with Payton again

  Even as Sean Payton tried to make the best of his one-season bounty banishment from the NFL by spending time with his children, getting in shape and playing golf, he often compared his punishment to prison time.
  He missed his work that much, his players say, adding that his return has infused Saints headquarters with a fresh intensity leading up to Tuesday’s opening of voluntary offseason practices.

  May 22, 2013

• Wildcats honored for efforts
• Season ends for Maroon Tide
• Season ends for Maroon Tide
• Tide stays alive

Lifestyles

• Arboretum Paths

  At the recent Master Naturalist training held at the Crosby Arboretum, Master Gardener Susan Swope discussed how using more natives in our landscapes can save us both time and money. She went on to describe some methods well-suited to lazy gardeners. One was to create planting beds in lawn areas. First, mow the grass as short as possible, then add layers of newspaper or cardboard, add a thick organic layer such as leaves, and there you go— less grass to mow.

  May 22, 2013 1 Photo

• CBAC Did you know? program highlights dangers to senior citizens
• 2013 Partners for Pearl River County By Jodi Marze
• Tami Harris takes state
• Arboretum Paths

State News

• Fire chief says search almost complete in Oklahoma

  The search for survivors and the dead is nearly complete in the Oklahoma City suburb that was smashed by a mammoth tornado, the fire chief said Tuesday.

  May 22, 2013

• Indian guest workers sue company in Miss., Texas
• Man wants pay for snakes seized in Miss. porn case
• Tornado churns through Oklahoma City suburbs
• Tchnology can speed emergency response

International

• Argentine Jorge Bergoglio elected Pope Francis

  Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was elected pope Wednesday and chose the name Francis, becoming the first pontiff from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium.
  Looking stunned, Francis shyly waved to the crowd of tens of thousands of people who gathered in St. Peter’s Square, marveling that the cardinals needed to look to “the end of the earth” to find a bishop of Rome.

  March 14, 2013 1 Photo

• Pope Benedict VXI resigning
• Suicide bomber kills guard at US Embassy in Turkey
• EU summit ends without budget deal
• Govt to let Cubans travel freely

Opinion

• Not your mother’s Ladies’ Home Journal

  By Rheta Grimsely Johnson/Syndicated columnist

  I haven’t seen the Ladies’ Home Journal in about a million years, except maybe in the dentist’s office when I was trying to avoid a television permanently set on Fox News.
  Somebody’s grandchild was selling magazines for a school project, and Ladies’ Home Journal was the only one on the list I recognized. Now it comes to the house.
  Let’s just say: It’s not my mother’s Ladies’ Home Journal. This month, right behind a feature called “A Country of People Who Never Stop Eating” is one called “Nice Girls Do Get Tattoos.”

  March 29, 2013

• Health care market needs oversight
• VA’s appalling failures not recent
• Dolley Madison politically savvy
• Mississippi isn’t immune from national college tuition trends

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Jim Greeson, Indiana's state fire marshal, leads Terre Haute fifth-graders in an earthquake drill in February. The drill was held in connection with the annual Great Central U.S. ShakeOut. Here Greeson demonstrates the "Drop, Cover and Hold On" technique for surviving an earthquake inside a building.

• The Big One: Preparing for mid-America earthquake

  It’s a bleak scenario. A massive earthquake along the New Madrid fault kills or injures 60,000 people in Tennessee. A quarter of a million people are homeless.

  May 20, 2013 3 Photos 3 Stories

• 5 takeaways from the IRS report
• Warning Signs: Technology speeds disaster alerts, response
• Do school bus drivers undergo background checks?
• Texas toddler dies from self-inflicted gunshot wound

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Jim Greeson, Indiana's state fire marshal, leads Terre Haute fifth-graders in an earthquake drill in February. The drill was held in connection with the annual Great Central U.S. ShakeOut. Here Greeson demonstrates the "Drop, Cover and Hold On" technique for surviving an earthquake inside a building.

• The Big One: Preparing for mid-America earthquake

  It’s a bleak scenario. A massive earthquake along the New Madrid fault kills or injures 60,000 people in Tennessee. A quarter of a million people are homeless.

  May 19, 2013 3 Photos 3 Stories

• Technology speeds disaster alerts, response
• Warning Signs: Technology speeds disaster alerts, response
• Tips for tornado readiness
• Against the wind: Tornado veterans balance preparedness, practicality

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